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Locked and Loaded: Third Circuit Declares Federal Gun Law Unconstitutional Over Ex-Felon Rights

JonathanTurley

However, when Range pleaded guilty in 1995, his conviction was classified as a Pennsylvania misdemeanor punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment. When his wife recently bought him a deer-hunting rifle, he learned that he was barred under federal law. Attorney General United States That triggered the federal ban.

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Connecticut High School Student Arrested For Posting Racist Slur

JonathanTurley

Here is what the provision states: “Any person who, by his advertisement, ridicules or holds up to contempt any person or class of persons, on account of the creed, religion, color, denomination, nationality or race of such person or class of persons, shall be guilty of a class D misdemeanor.” Free speech demands bright lines.

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Fourth Circuit Overturns Conviction Of Retired Air Force Colonel For Using Racial Slur

JonathanTurley

” The language of the statute in my view is unconstitutional due to its sweeping criminalization of any “curse or abuse” that could “provoke a breach of the peace.” ” However, the appellate panel corrected noted that such laws are narrowly construed in light of controlling precedent. .”

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California Dreaming: Newsom’s Kidnapping Claim Against DeSantis is Long on Politics and Short on the Law

JonathanTurley

California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) chimed in, declaring the flight from Florida might be “ State-sanctioned kidnapping.” Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, announced that she was taking a look, “long and hard,” at potential charges. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.)

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The Land that Law Forgot: The Supreme Court and the New York Legal Wasteland

JonathanTurley

New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) ran on a pledge to bag former president Donald Trump. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg also pledged to get Trump. Through various contortions, Bragg converted a dead misdemeanor case into 34 felonies in an unprecedented prosecution.

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August 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The Supreme Court called the appellate court’s conclusion that there are always reasonable legal alternatives to disobeying constitutional laws “untenable,” and held that “reasonable legal alternatives” must be effective. The court further found that EPCA’s legislative history did not support the plaintiff’s “expansive interpretation.”

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Why the House Has No Alternative to an Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden

JonathanTurley

However, the greatest case for an impeachment inquiry was made by Attorney General Merrick Garland himself. the case for an inquiry came from a most unlikely source: Attorney General Merrick Garland. Attorney David Weiss was a growing concern for many observers. For House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.),